If you crank up the bitrate, those solutions do a file job of saving to your hard drive, but with the bitrate restrictions you should adhere to for streaming purposes, they're not good. Overclocking an AMD FX-8320 w/ Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo Close.
From the log files that are posted here daily, for gaming and software encoding on the same PC, AMD doesn't work well.Īs for hardware encoding, you mostly don't want to stream with it.
If you don't want to add the complexity of a 2 PC setup, I would definitely recommend an i7 over an 8350 or anything from AMD at all. If you run a dual-PC setup, you could get an i3 or Pentium series to run the games (fast few cores) and an encode PC with many slower cores (server class Xeon, 8 core AMD, etc) and in combination they'd do a great job and save you money. Before i5 you're not able to encode well enough due to lack of cores. Past hexacore, you're giving up too much clockspeed and sacrificing your game framerates. The best combination of these factors is somewhere in the Intel i5 range up to the Extreme series i7 hexacores. The best CPU for gaming and encoding on the same computer is one with the best combination of single core speed and many cores. All software x264 encoding is best done with many cores, regardless of speed (within reason). That would be the list order of current NON enthusiast level CPU's from best to worst for streaming.Īlmost all gaming requires fast single-core speed. Side note, the Fx 4300, 6300, and 8300 were pretty bad CPU's to begin w/ the updated variants perform quite a bit better. Hell even CS:GO takes a hit thats just not fun to play. In all fairness, if you're not using at least the Fx-8350 w/ a decent overclock or a newer i7 you won't have an enjoyable experience gaming and streaming on any game with decent level graphics. However my old 3.6Ghz Wolfdale e8500 won't even begin to stream when even the i3 has a bitch of a time producing a quality stream.įurther more, the FX-6300 can handle stream quite easily, but it won't handle gaming and streaming at the same time very well. A 3.5Ghz i5-2500k is not equal to a 3.5Ghz i5-6600k sorry to break that to you, but clock speed isn't a relevant way to tell how fast a cpu is compared to another, it is a great way to establish speed/performance of identical cpu's clocked differently. Click to expand.Tbh clock speed is great, but it means nothing in reality.